Joseph Mallord William Turner

Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland

c.1837

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Granary Gallery (Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK): Turner - Northern Exposure

Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Dimensions: Support: 487 x 612 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D25457
Turner Bequest CCLXIII 334

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Bamborough Castle commands an imposing position on the Northumberland coast. Turner made his first drawings of it during his visit in 1797. This watercolour is one of several large studies of the castle, in all of which Turner has concentrated on the storm clouds in the distance, leaving blank the area intended for the castle. A finished watercolour of this subject exists in a private collection in America.

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